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Track kids who have aged out of the children’s aid system
… people who grew up in foster care or group homes experience low academic achievement, high rates of homelessness, early parenthood, unemployment, conflict with the law, mental health problems and loneliness. In Ontario, for instance, only 44 per cent of Crown wards complete high school compared to 81 per cent of students in the general population.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, rights, youth
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Wynne government promises much-needed investment in child care
This funding promises to help 24,000 kids access daycare, addressing an urgent funding shortfall. Right now some 15,400 kids are on the waitlist for subsidized care, while at the same time more than 4,000 spaces sit vacant because parents can’t afford fees that run as high as $20,000 a year… Funding subsidized spaces… will help some women back into the work force, improving the family’s bottom line while boosting the economy and the tax base.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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Judge exposes how we criminalize mental illness
From arrest to prosecution, conviction, sentencing, use of segregation, all stages of our criminal justice system are now consistently overrepresented by people who are suffering from psychosis, mania, mood disorders, depression, alcoholism and addiction, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders… While there is no panacea, the better way is to ensure people get help when they need it, before they are at risk of homelessness, unemployment, or conflict with law.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, featured, ideology, mental Health
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Ontario injects another $20 million into respite care
The money will help caregivers — such as those caring for a spouse with Alzheimer’s or a child with a brain injury — hire a personal support worker or nurse so they can get out of the house for shopping, errands or a break to “lighten the load… The money will provide for an extra 1.2 million hours of respite care and is in addition to an extra $20 million pumped into the system last year
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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It’s high time to track and reduce the use of solitary confinement
Among his recommendations: That the province set a standardized definition of segregation so it can properly track it. That a new tracking system be created that actually works. That independent panels review all segregation placements — with an onus on the ministry of community and correctional services to show that each placement is justified…
Tags: corrections, disabilities, ideology, mental Health, rights
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Ontario program targets child sex trafficking
The province is in the midst of a sweeping overhaul of its child protection system. Part of that rebuilding includes money for six new youth transition workers aimed at helping keep youth in provincial care from becoming trapped in “The Game.” … The six new jobs that Ontario is funding, each at $70,000 a year, are located in the Greater Toronto Area, the Golden Horseshoe, Ottawa, Windsor, London and Thunder Bay — all areas the province describes as “hubs” of human trafficking.
Tags: crime prevention, jurisdiction, youth
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Liberal budget’s child-care funding commendable, but won’t help families any time soon
The first four years amount to about half a billion dollars each to be added to an annual system which, even in its current woeful state, costs provinces $4.2-billion… Child-care experts estimate that it would actually cost closer to $12-billion a year – from all governments – to run a system which, to quote Ottawa’s current buzzwords, would be “accessible, affordable and flexible.” … “The resources will have the most impact if we start with those who are most vulnerable.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, women
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Parents won’t have social assistance slashed if kids placed in temporary care
The policy change by the Ministry of Community and Social Services lets these parents keep their full benefits until a court decides whether their children will be kept permanently in care. The benefits will only get reduced if the children are made Crown wards. The ministry will also reinstate full benefits to parents whose children are currently in temporary care…
Tags: child care, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, youth
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Liberals look to target child-care funding to ‘vulnerable’ families
the Liberals want to target the promised funds to single parent households, or children with mental health issues and not only at low-income families. Mathieu Filion said the government wants to help the “most vulnerable in our society,” believing the spending could have a positive influence these children later in life.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, poverty
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The ‘inverted justice’ of Canada’s family courts and how they got this way
… in the 1980s and ’90s, there was a perfect storm of change. Legal feminism was increasingly informed by radical feminism; divorce came to be seen as a source of women’s poverty; family law had blossomed as a proper branch of practice; the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms “opened the door to greater legal and judicial participation in the formation of social policy” … In that climate emerged a social policy aimed at reducing poverty by focusing on private responsibility.
Tags: child care, ideology, mental Health, poverty, privatization, rights, women, youth
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